Year-End Lists

Polaris Music Prize: 2020 Award

Winner

• Backxwash
  God Has Nothing to Do with This Leave Him Out of It

Shortlist

• Caribou
  Suddenly
• Jessie Reyez
  Before Love Came to Kill Us
• Junia-T
  Studio Monk
• Kaytranada
  Bubba
• Lido Pimienta
  Miss Colombia
• nêhiyawak
  nipiy
• Pantayo
  Pantayo
• U.S. Girls
  Heavy Light
• Witch Prophet
  DNA Activation

Longlist

• Allie X
  Cape God
• Anachnid
  Dreamweaver
• Andy Shauf
  The Neon Skyline
• Aquakultre
  Legacy
• Badge Époque Ensemble
  Badge Époque Ensemble
• Begonia
  Fear
• Chocolat
  Jazz engagé
• Cindy Lee
  What's Tonight to Eternity
• Corridor
  Junior
• Daniel Caesar
  Case Study 01
• Dvsn
  A Muse in Her Feelings
• Flore Laurentienne
  Volume 1
• Ice Cream
  Fed Up
• Jacques Greene
  Dawn Chorus
• Joel Plaskett
  44
• Leif Vollebekk
  New Ways
• Louis-Jean Cormier
  Quand la nuit tombe
• Marie-Pierre Arthur
  Des feux pour voir
• Men I Trust
  Oncle Jazz
• Obuxum
  Re-Birth
• Owen Pallett
  Island
• P'tit Belliveau
  Greatest Hits Vol. 1
• Riit
  Ataataga
• Sarah Harmer
  Are You Gone
• Super Duty Tough Work
  Studies in Grey
• The Weeknd
  After Hours
• Wares
  Survival
• WHOOP-Szo
  Warrior Down
• William Prince
  Reliever
• Zen Bamboo
  Glu